Beach House

From the deck of a wonderful beach house we've rented. I love the beach, but find beach scenes very difficult to make interesting. Watercolor pencils are great for travel, especially these, which are woodless Cretacolor pencils.

Quick graphite sketch...

For those of you who have seen my work at the studio, this is a great sample of what is important to me. My students always ask about the series of full body 14 x 11 sketches I do to prepare for a painting or an oil portrait. This graphite sketch shows perfectly how the unfinished sketch develops with the faces and the hands being the most important elements. Luana Luconi Winner

French Bar

Not much of a sketch, but an early effort using "Brushes" on my iPod Touch. "Brushes" is a cheap app getting a lot of attention for the New Yorker covers done with it. It's a wonderful tool and very handy when sketching around town, because nobody thinks you're drawing - just checking email or something. I particularly like the transparent effects you can get with it - this is a handsome bar with a mirror behind it.

A portrait sketch...

Martie Walsh and I, Luana Luconi Winner, want all of you to join us. We are Carolina Sketchers. We sketch and paint anything anywhere here in the Carolinas. Things, places, people, visitors, whatever we see that moves us. Today I am posting a portrait sketch I did this summer of a visitor to Carolina. She is the mother of the client of mine who lives in the Raleigh/Cary area. Isn't she beautiful... This is a graphite on 14 x 11 Bristol Board. What will you see...what will you sketch...send it to us...

Blount Street House

This house was until recently used by a state agency. Having drawn it several times, I decided the architect was insane. This sketch is much simplified.